The Senate intelligence committee says it agrees with a 2017 assessment by intelligence agencies that Russia intervened in the presidential election earlier to hurt the candidacy of Democrat Hillary Clinton and to help Donald Trump.
Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr said in a statement Wednesday that his staff has spent 14 months “reviewing the sources, tradecraft, and analytic work, and we see no reason to dispute the conclusions.”
That's in contrast to the House intelligence committee, which agreed with the majority of the report but said last month that the agencies...Read more ...

In closed-door testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee released Wednesday, Donald Trump Jr. explained his infamous "if it's what you say I love it" response to music publicist Rob Goldstone in an email exchange preceding a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with a Kremlin-connected lawyer.
Goldstone said Russia could provide dirt on 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
Trump Jr. said in his testimony that the "love it" comment was simply a "colloquial term used to say, 'Hey, great, thank you.'"
Donald Trump Jr. explained in congressional testimony his infamous response to...Read more ...